Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.